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McCain Worker: Attacker Angered By GOP Sticker
kdka.com
Pittsburgh police are investigating after a volunteer for the Republican campaign says she was attacked by a mugger who became enraged after seeing a John McCain bumper sticker on her car last night.
According to police, Ashley Todd, 20, said she was robbed at an ATM at the corner of Liberty Avenue and Pearl Street in the Bloomfield area around 9 p.m. Wednesday after leaving a Republican phone bank.
Todd told police that the suspect, described only as a dark-skinned African-American man about 6’4″, stole $60 from her and became enraged after seeing a bumper sticker supporting Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain on her car.
Todd, who is from Texas, said the suspect put a knife to her neck and demanded money.
Todd told police that the man became very angry after noticing the McCain sticker on her car and began punching and kicking her.
After repeatedly hitting, kicking and threatening her, Todd told police that the man carved a “B” in her cheek.
According to the police report, the officer confirmed that he “observed the wound on the right side of [her] face.
Todd declined immediate medical attention last night but said she would go to the hospital today.
The suspect ran off after the attack; but police are hoping that footage from bank surveillance camera may help lead them to the suspect.
In an official statement the McCain campaign says: “We’re shaken up by this. It’s sick and disgusting.”
Governor Sarah Palin reportedly spoke with the victim by phone.
Meanwhile, late this afternoon, the Obama-Biden campaign released a statement, saying: “This is a horrendous act of violence. Our thoughts and prayers are with the young woman for her to make a speedy recovery, and we hope that the person who perpetrated this crime is swiftly apprehended and brought to justice.”
UPDATE:
KDKA.COM
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She calls it a political attack — a McCain campaign volunteer says she was attacked in Bloomfield.
Patrick Graham, the president of College Republicans in Pittsburgh, told KDKA that Todd works for the National College Republican Committee.
She’s been in Pittsburgh about a week.
Graham said Todd was on her way to meeting, when she reported robbery and assault took place.
Among other things, police are checking security cameras in the neighborhood to see what, if anything, they may have recorded.
A photo obtained by the Drudge Report website showed Todd after the alleged assault.
However, KDKA could not verify the authenticity of the photo.
Pittsburgh Police did not take a photo of the woman.
Wild Thing’s comment………..
I think Obama should be partly to blame for this. He told his followers to go out and ” get in their faces”, he tells at his website to go and protest at the McCain/Palin rallies. And his low life follwers obey him. His words of how terrible this attack was mean nothing just as he means nothing as a human being.
….Thank you Mark for sending this story to me.
UPDATE:
ATTACKED GIRL ADMITS IT WAS A HOAX!
Police: Campaign Volunteer Lied, Injured Self
kdka.com
At a news conference this afternoon, offiicals said they believe the woman’s injuries were self-inflicted. Ashley Todd, 20, is now facing charges for filing a false report to police.
Filing a false report and interfering with police business , this is really sick!!!!!!
Times have changed, it use to be a scarlet A, now it’s a backwards B.
What she did messes with both McCain and Obama’s campaign. I could give a rats ass about the Obama campaign but this is very serious what she did.
What she did deserves a stiff penalty – because she was messing with an election (in that it would probably influence voters) and in the fact that she made a racially charged false statement in a very volatile environment.
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